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Middle-aged women are being short-changed by television and the theatre
because of the domination of colourless, clichéd older female roles, one of
Britain’s most cherished actresses has claimed.

Juliet Stevenson said that writers and commissioning editors did not think
women over the age of 40 “had much narrative”, adding: “It’s as if things do
not happen, they are not interesting, which is crazy.”